Screen LibraryIdeas of chinese gardens : western accounts, 1300-1860 /
Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a pletho...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
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[2015] ©2016 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Penn studies in landscape architecture
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Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a plethora of beasts and birds took root in the European imagination as the description of a kind of Eden. Beginning in the sixteenth century, permanent interaction between Europe and China took form, and Jesuit missionaries and travelers recorded in letters and memoirs their admiration of Chinese gardens for their seeming naturalness. In the eighteenth century, European taste for chinoiserie reached its height, and informed observers of the Far East discovered that sophisticated and codified design principles lay behind the apparent simplicity of the Chinese garden. The widespread appreciation of the eighteenth century gave way to rejection in the nineteenth, a result of tensions over practical concerns such as trade imbalances and symbolized by the destruction of the imperial park of Yuanming yuan by a joint Anglo-French military expedition.In Ideas of Chinese Gardens, Bianca Maria Rinaldi has gathered an unparalleled collection of westerners' accounts, many freshly translated and all expertly annotated, as well as images that would have accompanied the texts as they circulated in Europe. Representing a great diversity of materials and literary genres, Rinaldi's book includes more than thirty-five sources that span centuries, countries, languages, occupational biases, and political aims. By providing unmediated firsthand accounts of the testimony of these travelers and expatriates, Rinaldi illustrates how the Chinese garden was progressively lifted out of the realm of fantasy into something that could be compared with, and have an impact on, European traditions. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource : 23 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812292084 |
| Index Number: | SB457 |
| CLC: | K930.9-532 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Marco Polo (c. 1254 1324) -- Chapter 2. Matteo Ricci (1552 1610) -- Chapter 3. lvaro Semedo (1585/1586 1658) -- Chapter 4. Johannes Nieuhof (1618 72) -- Chapter 5. Jean-Fran ois Gerbillon (1654 1707) -- Chapter 6. Louis Le Comte (1655 1728) -- Chapter 7. Jean-Fran ois Gerbillon (1654 1707) -- Chapter 8. Matteo Ripa (1682 1746) -- Chapter 9. Jean-Denis Attiret (1702 68) -- Chapter 10. William Chambers (1723 96) -- Chapter 11. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718 93) -- Chapter 12. John Bell (1691 1763) -- Chapter 13. Michel Benoist (1715 74) -- Chapter 14. Fran ois Bourgeois (1723 92) -- Chapter 15. Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716 84) -- Chapter 16. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727 80) -- Chapter 17. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718 93) or Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727 80) -- Chapter 18. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727 80) -- Chapter 19. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727 80) -- Chapter 20. George Leonard Staunton (1737 1801) -- Chapter 21. Andr Everard van Braam Houckgeest (1739 1801) -- Chapter 22. John Barrow (1764 1848) -- Chapter 23. George Macartney (1737 1806) -- Chapter 24. Chr tien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759 1845) -- Chapter 25. F lix Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767 1840) -- Chapter 26. Peter Dobell (1772 1852) -- Chapter 27. James Main (c. 1765 1846) -- Chapter 28. John Francis Davis (1795 1890) -- Chapter 29. Robert Fortune (1813 80) -- Chapter 30. Osmond Tiffany, Jr. (1823 95) -- Chapter 31. Henry Charles Sirr (1807 72) -- Chapter 32. Robert Fortune (1813 80) -- Chapter 33. Charles Taylor (1819 97) -- Chapter 34. Robert Swinhoe (1836 77) -- Chapter 35. Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833 1913) -- Appendix. William Chambers (1723 96) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |